Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - a few hotfixes
 - drivers/dma updates
 - MAINTAINERS updates
 - Quite a lot of lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - binfmt updates
 - autofs4
 - drivers/rtc/
 - various small tweaks to less used filesystems
 - ipc/ updates
 - kernel/watchdog.c changes

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (135 commits)
  mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared
  kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>
  ia64: remove duplicate declarations of __per_cpu_start[] and __per_cpu_end[]
  frv: remove unused declarations of __start___ex_table and __stop___ex_table
  kvm: ensure hard lockup detection is disabled by default
  kernel/watchdog.c: control hard lockup detection default
  staging: rtl8192u: use %*pEn to escape buffer
  staging: rtl8192e: use %*pEn to escape buffer
  staging: wlan-ng: use %*pEhp to print SN
  lib80211: remove unused print_ssid()
  wireless: hostap: proc: print properly escaped SSID
  wireless: ipw2x00: print SSID via %*pE
  wireless: libertas: print esaped string via %*pE
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier
  lib / string_helpers: introduce string_escape_mem()
  lib / string_helpers: refactoring the test suite
  lib / string_helpers: move documentation to c-file
  include/linux: remove strict_strto* definitions
  arch/x86/mm/numa.c: fix boot failure when all nodes are hotpluggable
  fs: check bh blocknr earlier when searching lru
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
index baff1da354e0..af78e50ca6ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap_caller(resource_size_t phys_addr,
 	pgprot_t prot;
 	int retval;
 	void __iomem *ret_addr;
+	int ram_region;
 
 	/* Don't allow wraparound or zero size */
 	last_addr = phys_addr + size - 1;
@@ -108,12 +109,23 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap_caller(resource_size_t phys_addr,
 	/*
 	 * Don't allow anybody to remap normal RAM that we're using..
 	 */
-	pfn      = phys_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	last_pfn = last_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	if (walk_system_ram_range(pfn, last_pfn - pfn + 1, NULL,
-				  __ioremap_check_ram) == 1)
+	/* First check if whole region can be identified as RAM or not */
+	ram_region = region_is_ram(phys_addr, size);
+	if (ram_region > 0) {
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "ioremap on RAM at 0x%lx - 0x%lx\n",
+				(unsigned long int)phys_addr,
+				(unsigned long int)last_addr);
 		return NULL;
+	}
 
+	/* If could not be identified(-1), check page by page */
+	if (ram_region < 0) {
+		pfn      = phys_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		last_pfn = last_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		if (walk_system_ram_range(pfn, last_pfn - pfn + 1, NULL,
+					  __ioremap_check_ram) == 1)
+			return NULL;
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Mappings have to be page-aligned
 	 */